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A/PROF MALCOLM DAVIDSON



Contact Details

Organization: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & READER
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Homepage: http://www.chemeng.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/davidson.html
Work: +61 3 8344 6615
Fax: +61 3 8344 4153
Room: 3.25
Level: 03
Building: Chemical Engineering #1
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling Multi-phase flow Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom Cranfield University Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (Hons) The University of Queensland 01-Jan-1970
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Queensland 01-Feb-1974

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Mathematical Society Member 02-Sep-1974

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Drop deformation in confined microfluidic geometries Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage-Australian Postdoctoral Fellowships (CSIRO) 01/01/2003
MICRO PROCESS PLANTS - NON-NEWTONIAN FLOW AND PARTICLE SYNTHESIS IN CONFINED GEOMETRIES Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 05/12/2005
Electro-viscous effects on pressure-driven liquid flow in microchannels Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Churchill Fellowship 1979

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Electroviscous effects in steady fully developed flow of a power-law liquid through a cylindrical microchannel
    Year: 2009
    Journal: International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 804-811
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  • Evolution of colloidal nanocrystals: theory and modeling of their nucleation and growth
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry C
    Volume: 113
    Issue: 37
    Page numbers: 16342-16355
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  • Simulating particle agglomeration in the flash smelting reaction shaft
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Minerals Engineering
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1251-1265
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Deformation of a Viscoelastic Droplet Passing Through a Microfluidic Contraction
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 155
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 67-79
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  • Parasitic Current Generation in Combined Level Set and Volume of Fluid Immiscible Fluid Simulations
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 868-884
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  • Steady Flow of Ionic Liquid Through a Cylindrical Microfluidic Contraction-Expansion Pipe: Electroviscous Effects and Pressure Drop
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Science
    Volume: 63
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 3593-3604
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Effect of Surfactant on Drop Deformation Through a Microfluidic Contraction: The Encapsulation Phenomenon
    Year: 2008
    Event name: HEAT 2008, Fifth International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems
    Conference Publication: HEAT 2008, Fifth International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 277-282
    Publisher: Bialystok Technical University(Bialystok)
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  • Electroviscous Effects in Low Reynolds Number Flow through a Microfluidic Contraction with Rectangular Cross-Section
    Year: 2008
    Event name: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 256-260
    Publisher: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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  • Fully Developed Flow of Power-Law Fluid Through a Cylindrical Microfluidic Pipe: Pressure Drop and Electroviscous Effects
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 2008 ASME Fluids Engineering Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of FEDSM2008
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: ASME International(New York)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A model for heap bioleaching of chalcocite with heat balance: Mesophiles and moderate thermophiles
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Hydrometallurgy
    Volume: 85
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 24-41
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  • A parametric study of droplet deformation through a microfluidic contraction: Shear thinning liquids
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Multiphase Flow
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 545-556
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  • Electroviscous effects in low Reynolds number liquid flow through a slit-like microfluidic contraction
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Science
    Volume: 62
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 4229-4240
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  • Predicting the effect of interfacial flow of insoluble surfactant on the deformation of drops rising in a liquid
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: C661-676
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  • Restart model for a multi-plug gelled waxy oil pipeline
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 1-16
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Droplet deformation through a microfluidic contraction with interfacial flow of insoluble surfactant
    Year: 2007
    Event name: International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF 07)
    Conference Publication: International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF 07)
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg(Merseburg)
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  • Electrokinetic flow resistance in pressure-driven liquid flow through a slit-like microfluidic contraction
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Sixteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (16AFMC)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference
    Page numbers: 798-802
    Publisher: The University of Queensland(Brisbane)
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  • Model of isothermal agglomeration in the flash smelting reaction shaft
    Year: 2007
    Event name: European Metallurgical Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings European Metallurgical Conference (EMC 2007)
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 31-45
    Publisher: GDMB Medienverlag(Clausthal-Zellerfeld)
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  • Prediction of Deforming Interfaces in Two Fluid Flow
    Year: 2007
    Event name: IAWS-CFD 2007
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of IAWS-CFD 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Research India Publications
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • A parametric study of droplet deformation through a microfluidic contraction: Low viscosity Newtonian droplets
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Science
    Volume: 61
    Issue: 15
    Page numbers: 5149-5158
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  • An air sparging CFD model for heap bioleaching of chalcocite
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Applied Mathematical Modelling
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1428-1444
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  • An analysis of parasitic current generation in Volume of Fluid simulations
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Applied Mathematical Modelling
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1056-1066
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  • Control of an Oscillatory Rectangular Cavity Jet Flow by Secondary Injection
    Year: 2006
    Journal: JSME International Journal Series B - Fluids and Thermal Engineering
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1105-1110
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  • Pendant drop formation of shear-thinning and yield stress fluids
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Applied Mathematical Modelling
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1392-1405
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  • Simulations of pendant drop formation of a viscoelastic liquid
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 41-49
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  • The dissolution of a stationary spherical bubble beneath a flat plate
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Science
    Volume: 61
    Issue: 23
    Page numbers: 7697-7705
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A model for heap bioleaching of chalcocite with heat balance: Effect of gas flow rate
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 5th MATHMOD Vienna
    Conference Publication: 5th MATHMOD Vienna
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: Vienne University of Technology(Vienne)
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  • A two-dimensional model for the heap bioleaching of chalcocite: Effect of inlet height
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Fifth International conference on computational fluid dynamics in the process industries
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Fifth International conference on computational fluid dynamics in the process industries
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications
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  • An isothermal model of agglomeration in a flash smelting reaction shaft
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Fifth International conference on computational fluid dynamics in the process industries
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Fifth International conference on computational fluid dynamics in the process industries
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications
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  • Simulations of viscoelastic droplet deformation through a microfluidic contraction
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Advances in Fluid Mechanics V1
    Conference Publication: Sixth International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 69-78
    Publisher: WIT Press(Boston)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A model for heap bioleaching of chalcocite with heat balance: Bacterial temperature dependence
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Minerals Engineering
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 1239-1252
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • A parametric study of droplet deformation through a microfluidic contraction
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 46E
    Page numbers: 150-166
    Publisher: Australian Mathematical Society
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  • A two-dimensional CFD model for heap bioleaching of chalcocite
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 46E
    Page numbers: 439-457
    Publisher: Australian Mathematical Society
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  • An analysis of parasitic current generation in volume of fluid simulations
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 46E
    Page numbers: C133-C149
    Publisher: Australian Mathematical Society
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  • Control of a submerged jet in a thin rectangular cavity
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Fluids and Structures
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 1025-1042
    Publisher: Academic Press(London)
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  • Flow focusing in microchannels
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 46E
    Page numbers: 47-58
    Publisher: Australian Mathematical Society
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  • Milk skin formation during drying
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Science
    Volume: 60
    Page numbers: 635-646
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Modelling oxygen diffusion and cell growth in a porous, vascularising scaffold for soft tissue engineering applications
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Science
    Volume: 60
    Page numbers: 4924-4934
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Scaling behavior for gravity induced flow of a yield stress material
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Rheology
    Volume: 49
    Page numbers: 105-112
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Control of an oscillatory rectangular cavity jet flow by secondary injection
    Year: 2005
    Event name: International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows
    Conference Publication: International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, ICJWSF-2005
    Page numbers: 561-566
    Publisher: The Jappan Society of Mechanical Engineers(Toba-shi)
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  • Mass transfer from deforming drops rising in a liquid column
    Year: 2005
    Event name: International Solvent Extraction Conference (ISEC'05)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of International Solvent Extraction Conference (ISEC'05)
    Page numbers: 1684-1693
    Publisher: China Academic Journal Electronic Publishing House(Beijing)
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Reports

  • Prediction of Wine Press Performance


    Year: 2005
    Customer: VITQUIP
    Report No:: 1
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A model for restart of a pipeline with compressible gelled waxy crude oil
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 123
    Page numbers: 269-280
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Architecture control of three dimensional polymeric scaffolds for soft tissue engineering I. establishment and validation of numerical models
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
    Volume: 71A
    Page numbers: 81-89
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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  • Modelling the dispersion of dissolving spherical particles
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 78-91
    Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises(Geneva)
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  • Predicting the extent of dissolution of a cloud of particles entering a liquid
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 45(E)
    Page numbers: C604-C617
    Publisher: Australian Mathematical Society
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  • Shear-thinning drop formation
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The ANZIAM Journal
    Volume: 45(E)
    Page numbers: C405-C418
    Publisher: Australian Mathematical Society
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A column bioleaching model for Chalcocite - An investigation of oxygen limitation and bacterial inoculation on leaching
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Bac-Min 2004 Conference
    Conference Publication: Bac-Min Conference
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 41-47
    Publisher: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy(Melbourne)
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  • Simulating the deformation of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian drops through a micro-fluidic contraction
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the fifteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: University of Sydney(Sydney)
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  • VOF prediction of drop formation of shear-thinning and yield stress fluids
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Fifth International Confernce on Multiphase Flow
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ICMF-2004 Fifth International Conference on Multiphase Flow
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: University of Tokyo Press(Tokyo)
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Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • An air sparging CFD model for heap bioleaching of copper-sulphide
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Third International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries
    Conference Publication: Third International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries
    Page numbers: 581-586
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Clayton)
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  • Confined jet flow control: An investigation using 2D and 3D CFD and 2D LDA
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 7th International Symposium on Fluid Control, Measurement and Visualization - Flucome '03
    Conference Publication: 7th International Symposium on Fluid Control, Measurement and Visualization - Flucome '03
    Page numbers: 1-15
    Publisher: Optical Diagnostics in Engineering(London)
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  • Dispersion and coalescence of two pulses of spherical solid particles dropped successively into an initially quiescent liquid
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Second International Conference on Computational Methods in Multiphase Flow
    Conference Publication: Computational Methods in Multiphase Flow II
    Page numbers: 85-94
    Publisher: WIT Press(Southampton)
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  • Eulerian model for dissolution and dispersion of particles entering a liquid
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Third International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries
    Conference Publication: Third International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries
    Page numbers: 269-274
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Clayton)
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  • Numerical prediction of shear-thinning drop formation
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Third International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries
    Conference Publication: Third International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries
    Page numbers: 403-407
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Clayton)
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Reports

  • Assessing the Micromachines Ltd. Turbine
    Year: 2003
    Customer: Micromachines Ltd
    Report No:: 1
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Oscillatory flow in a physical model of a thin slab casting mould with a bifurcated submerged entry nozzle
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Fluids Engineering - Transactions of the ASME
    Volume: 124
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 535-543
    Publisher: Amercian Society of Mechanical Engineering(New York)
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  • Spreading of an inviscid drop impacting on a liquid film
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Chemical Engineering Science
    Volume: 57
    Page numbers: 3639-3647
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Volume-of-fluid calculation of heat or mass transfer across deforming interfaces in two-fluid flow
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Numerical Heat Transfer Part B - Fundamentals
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 291-308
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(Philadelphia)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • CFD Studies on bifurcated nozzle jet flow in a water model of a thin slab casting mould
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: Institute of Chemical Engineers Australia(Melbourne)
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  • Deformation of a droplet passing through a contraction
    Year: 2002
    Event name: ASME 2002 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ASME FEDSM'02
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: ASME International(New York)
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  • Numerical modelling of droplet deformation in a high-pressure homogeniser
    Year: 2002
    Event name: ASME 2002 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ASME FEDSM'02
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: ASME International(New York)
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  • Numerical modelling of transitional flow in an industrial homogeniser
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: Institute of Chemical Engineers Australia(Melbourne)
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  • Solids addition to metallurgical melts: A computational study
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: Institute of Chemical Engineers Australia(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Self-sustained oscillation of a submerged jet in a thin rectangular cavity
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Fluids and Structures
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 59-81
    Publisher: Academic Press(London)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A numerical method for heat transfer across deforming fluid interfaces
    Year: 2001
    Event name: CHT'01 Advances in Computational Heat Transfer II
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of a Symposium organized by the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 437-444
    Publisher: Begell House(New York)
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  • A numerical method for mass-transfer in two-fluid flow with interfaces
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Internaltional Symposium on Multi-Phase Flow and Transport Phenomena
    Conference Publication: Multi-phase Flow and Transport Phenomena
    Page numbers: 236-243
    Publisher: Begell House(New York)
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  • VOF calculation of mass-transfer in two-fluid flow with interfaces
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 4th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF'2001
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the ICMF - 2000
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: ICMF(New Orleans)
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